third week of lent - salisbury catholic churches
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C l i f t o n D i o c e s e R e g i s t e r e d C h a r i t y 1 1 7 0 1 6 8 C o m p a n y N o 1 0 4 6 2 0 7 4
PARISH PRIEST Canon Michael J Fitzpatrick [email protected]
07479 881 388
Fr Saji Mathew [email protected]
01722 333581
PARISH OFFICE Monday - Friday 9.30 - 12.30pm [email protected]
01722 333581
St Osmund’s 95 Exeter Street Salisbury SP1 2SF 01722 333581
Most Holy Redeemer Fotherby Crescent Bishopdown Salisbury SP1 3EG
St Gregory’s St Gregory’s Avenue Salisbury SP2 7JP 01722 334496
Deacon John Proctor 01722 340206 [email protected]
Deacon Stephen Godwin 01722 501854 [email protected]
Deacon John Detain 01722 415588 [email protected]
Outreach Worker Caroline Williams 01722 502503 [email protected]
Deanery Youth Worker Xanthe Vanderputt 01722 333581 [email protected]
Chapel of the Good Shepherd Barford Lane, Downton Salisbury SP5 3QA
Year C Lent Cycle 1
Psalter Week 3
Online
@sarumcatholic salisburycatholics.org Salisbury Catholic Churches
THIRD WEEK OF LENT
Saturday 9.30 am St Osmund’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer 23 March 10.30 am St Osmund’s MASS Mary Robson RIP First Mass of Sunday 6.00 pm Holy Redeemer MASS Anna Thomas, in sickness
Sunday THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT 24 March 9.00 am St Osmund’s MASS Tom and Lena Bange RIP 9.30 am St Gregory’s MASS Joan Holland RIP 11.00 am St Osmund’s MASS People of the Parish 6.00 pm St Osmund’s MASS Our families
Monday SOLEMNITY OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD 25 March 9.00 am St Gregory’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer. 8.45 am St Osmund’s Morning Prayer 9.00 am St Osmund’s MASS Tuesday 9.00 am St Gregory’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer 26 March 9.30 am St Osmund’s Morning Prayer 9.45 am St Osmund’s MASS Diosdado Alvarez RIP 12.45 pm St Osmund’s Funeral of Hazel Lough
Wednesday 9.00 am St Gregory’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer 27 February 10.00 am Holy Redeemer MASS Annie Moloney and Mary Coote RIP 7.00 pm St Osmund’s Stations of the Cross and Ordinariate MASS
Thursday 9.00 am St Gregory’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer 28 March 11.00 am St Osmund’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 12 noon St Osmund’s MASS 6.30 pm Downton MASS
Friday 9.00 am St Gregory’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer 29 March 10.00 am St Gregory’s Requiem MASS John Seller RIP 6.30 pm St Osmund’s Stations of the Cross 6.30 pm St Gregory’s Stations of the Cross 7.00 pm St Osmund’s MASS
Saturday 9.30 am St Osmund’s Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Morning Prayer 30 March 10.30 am St Osmund’s MASS First Mass of Sunday 6.00 pm Holy Redeemer MASS Intentions of the donor.
SACRAMEN T OF RECONCILI ATION St Gregory’s: Fridays 10.30am St Osmund’s: Saturdays 11am Holy Redeemer: Saturdays 5.40pm
and also on request, please contact one of the priests.
ORDINARIATE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM Fr Keith Robinson on 01722 504807 or [email protected]
MASS Holy Redeemer, Sundays 11am EVENSONG and BENEDICTION Holy Redeemer, Second Sunday of every month 6pm
COMBONI MISSIONARY SISTERS Sr Aurora will be making an a appeal this weekend at Holy Redeemer and St Osmund at the 9 and 11am Masses on behalf of the Mission.
SECOND COLLECTION in all churches next weekend will be for Easter flowers.
BAPTISM COURSES If you have a child that you would like to be baptised, you will need to complete one of our baptism preparation courses. The next course at St Osmund’s will begin on 28 April following the 9am Mass and continues on Sundays 5 and 12 May. Please contact John Proctor [email protected] 340206 to book on this course. At St Gregory’s contact Stephen Godwin on 501854 or [email protected]
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION The next session will be on Saturday 30 March at 3pm in St Osmund’s School, for children and parents. This will be an important meeting for parents as all the practical arrangements for First Communion day will be explained.
CONFIRMATION PROGRAMME continues in St Osmund’s Parish Rooms on Tuesday 2 April and will be for candidates, parents and sponsors at 6.45pm.
MARRIAGE PREPARATION For couples planning to marry during 2019. Please attend this course which runs from 7pm on Friday evening 29 March and 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday 30 March. Contact Deacon John Proctor on 340206 or [email protected] For more information go to: https://salisburycatholics.org/marriage
RCIA: The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults - Are you interested in becoming a Catholic? Perhaps you already attend Mass but would like to know more. Perhaps you know someone that would like to know more. This group is for those who are interested in exploring the Catholic faith. Meetings continue in the Presbytery Thursday evenings at 7.30 pm. Contact Canon Michael, Fr Saji or the Parish Office 333581.
CHRISM MASS - CLIFTON CATHEDRAL 17 April A coach will leave from opposite the White Hart on Wednesday 17 April at 7.45am, St Gregory’s at 8am and Amesbury 8.20am from Central Car Park. We encourage you to attend this beautiful opportunity to see all the priests of the diocese renew their Ordination vows and to see Bishop Declan bless the Sacred Chrism and the other holy oils that will be used in parishes for the sacraments during the year. If you wish to join us, please use the envelopes provided at the back of the church. Cost - £10 per person (children free). Please remember to bring a packed lunch.
HOPE AND FRIENDSHIP GROUP will be out to lunch on Monday 25 March at midday Contact 333581
ST GREGORY’S GET TOGETHER We are gathering in the hall after Mass on the 24 March following the end of the baptism preparation course. Please join us and spend time with fellow parishioners.
HOLY REDEEMER meeting will be held on Wednesday 27 March at 7pm, all welcome.
MY GENERATION On 27 March at 2pm the group will be holding a bingo afternoon in St Gregory’s Hall to which all are welcome.
SALISBURY JUSTICE AND PEACE GROUP are taking part in an evening about the environment, ‘One Small Step’ at St Paul’s Church at 7pm on 30 March. For more information call Graham on 333873 or just turn up.
SALISBURY CATENIANS would like to announce that they have raised £2734 towards their President’s (Chris Burnell) nominated charity, Action for Children. This year they will be raising funds for the incoming president’s two nominated charities: Salisbury Street Pastors and the Society of Our Lady of Lourdes. We wish the new president, Jim Rolleston and his wife Frances, well for his presidential year.
WEEKLY GIVING ENVELOPES Gift Aid weekly & monthly envelopes for year 2019–2020 are now in our church porches for collection. Please advise us if there is any change to your details for Gift Aid by contacting the parish office 333581 [email protected]
GOVERNORS FOR ST EDWARDS SCHOOL St Edward’s is a Catholic school which caters for children with special educational needs. It is located just outside Romsey. They are looking for Catholics to be foundation governers. If you are interested, please contact the diocesan Schools Department 0117 902 5599 [email protected]
EASTER LEAFLET DELIVERIES - It’s not too late to volunteer to deliver a few of our beautiful Easter leaflets (just posting through letterboxes, no door-knocking involved!). We still have some left and would like them all to go! Please contact Caroline if you can help: [email protected] 502503
Would you like to train to be a Primary School Teacher?
Do you already have a degree? Did you know you can train locally with the Primary Catholic Partnership either for a PGCE or through School Direct? Why not come along and find out more. We will be holding a short open morning at St Osmund’s School, Exeter Street, Salisbury SP1 2SG on Monday 1 April at 9am. As well as hearing about routes into teaching, there will be an opportunity to meet the PCP Director and teachers who have completed the course and are working in the Salisbury area. If you would like to attend, please contact the school office on 322632 or [email protected]
Reconciliation Service with Bishop Declan took place on Thursday. We were blessed to have six priests available to hear confessions. Thank you to everyone involved in any way in preparing the church and the liturgy. If you were unable to attend but would like to watch the service, it is now available on our website at https://salisburycatholics.org/st-osmunds - click the ‘recordings’ tab. There is also a photo gallery from the event on our website https://salisburycatholics.org/reconciliation-service and a write up which can be found at https://salisburycatholics.org/blog/reconciliation-service or accessed from the ‘Top News’ box.
St Osmund’s School Stations of the Cross The children of St Osmund’s school are creating a Stations of The Cross journey and reflection in their school hall. Previous years have been a huge success and it is a very moving experience to travel the journey of Jesus to the Cross as interpreted by our children. Once again, parishioners and family members are very welcome to attend on Wednesday 3 April between 9-11am and 1.30-4pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to join us in prayer and reflection as part of our joint parish/school preparation for Easter.
March Prayer Intention - our focus for March is ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation’. This theme has been chosen for Lent as we hope to have a renewed parish focus on the Sacrament of Reconciliation this year. Go to: https://salisburycatholics.org/march
Not been to Confession for years? Feeling anxious about it? Forgotten what to do/say? You’re not alone! This is much more common than you may think and many people haven’t been for decades but maybe it’s time to put this behind you. There is a section on our website to help you - there is a ‘How to’ guide, an explanation of the Sacrament and a number of helpful videos and testimonies. There is also a short and encouraging video on our website that is aimed specifically at children to remind them of what they were taught and what to do. Why not watch it together and come together?
Please continue to pray for everyone who may be nervous about returning to this Sacrament.
If you are one of our wonderful Outreach Volunteers who visits the houses of your neighbouring Catholic parishioners, the lists for your Easter visits are available for collection from the churches this weekend. As before, each pack will contain your list of houses to call upon, the Easter Mass times card and Easter Greetings card for housebound parishioners. A notebook and the notes that you made from your visit at Christmas will also be inside. Please make your visits anytime from now up until 14 April (Palm Sunday).
Parishioners Please offer a warm welcome when the volunteer for your area calls at your home. The purpose of our visits is not simply the delivery of the Easter Mass times card, it is to help to forge friendships and connections between parishioners in a particular area. If you do NOT receive a visit or a card through your door, it may be a sign that you are not registered on the parish database. If this is the case, please contact Caroline 502503 [email protected]
Since we launched our Church TV service last July there has been a continuous ‘live feed’ (live images) from St Osmund’s Church on our website This has meant that, during times when there is no liturgy or prayer happening, all that featured on the screen was an empty church, or possibly the cleaners or sacristans going about their work.
We are delighted to announce that we have upgraded the system so that when there is no Mass/prayer/exposition happening in the church, what you will see on the ‘live feed’ instead are prayerful reflections and other features that may be helpful to you in your faith. We hope that you will view and enjoy them and that they will support you in your prayer life.
How does it work? We have programmed the system so that 5 minutes before a liturgy/prayer is due to begin, the video content on the screen will cut back to the live view of the church, ready for the liturgy to begin. This will happen whether it is Mass, a funeral, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament or any other prayer/service in the church. A short while after the liturgy has ended, the screen will return to the reflections once more. These will run continuously day and night so that you can join whenever it suits you.
What can I watch? The video content that we have currently playing are reflections on the Gospels for the first three Sundays of Lent and the Stations of the Cross. As you watch/pray with the video, you are able to press ‘pause’ at any moment if you wish to spend a moment in prayer or reflection before continuing. Content will change from time to time as we move through the church year and we will let you know in this newsletter when we add new content.
Need help? If you are unsure how to use the system or how it will work, we are happy to help you. Please contact Caroline 502503 [email protected] or Tony 500653 [email protected]
OTHER MASSES
Polish Mass: St Osmund’s 4pm Second Sunday of the Month Syro-Malabar Rite Mass: St Osmund’s 5.30pm preceded by Rosary at 5pm Third Saturday of the Month
HEALING PRAYER MINISTRY
31 March - After 9am Mass at St Osmund's 6 April- After 6pm Mass at Holy Redeemer
PRAYER MATTERS
YEAR OF PRAYER Each month during our Clifton Diocese ‘Year of Prayer’, we are inviting parishioners to focus on a particular prayer intention. These intentions are suggested by parishioners and are all shown on our website at https://salisburycatholics.org/monthly-prayer-intentions. Our prayer focus for March is ‘Forgiveness and Reconciliation’ and you will find resources to help you in your prayer on the March page on our website: https://salisburycatholics.org/march. There are now only three months remaining that are not ‘spoken for’. If you have a particular prayer intention that is important to you that you would like to propose, please get in touch. [email protected]
THE PROTECTION OF MINORS IN THE CHURCH Please continue to pray for positive outcomes from the recent summit held by Pope Francis and for all survivors of abuse. The Vatican summit concluded with a press briefing that saw concrete commitments and initiatives announced to protect children and to combat abuse. To read this press briefing and for more information, see our website: https://salisburycatholics.org/pbc2019
CLIFTON DIOCESE - We pray this week for St Stanislaus, Dulverton and Sacred Heart, Minehead with Watchet.
PLEASE REMEMBER all those who are sick and in hospital and those who have died recently including John Seller and Hazel Lough and all those whose anniversaries occur at this time. May they rest in peace.
ROSARY GROUPS We have two Rosary groups. One that gathers monthly in Alabare House of Prayer on Tollgate Rd SP1 2JA - dates and times are announced in this newsletter and one that meets weekly in St Gregory’s on Thursdays at 10am. Contact Jane 07554 006127. Everyone is very welcome to either - or both!
MORNING RETREAT for women on Thursday 28 March at St Edwards Church, Shaftesbury from 10.30-2pm. To include Mass and Confession. It will be led by a Priest of Opus Dei. Lunch will be from 1-2pm. Please bring a packed lunch. For more information, please contact Kath on 335773 or Valeria on 01747 851317.
YEAR OF PRAYER: THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT
To be ‘tender of heart’, to be humble is one of the more attractive personality traits we see in people. Humility can best be described as a “generosity of spirit” – a willingness to see our own interests in others – to evaluate our attitudes and see the face of God in each and every one of our neighbours, friends and family members. We know that this is not always easy. When we feel insecure, anxious or envious, it is easier for us to see the negative and to engage in putting others down, to make quick and unkind judgements. But Jesus warns against this way of being. Instead he invites us to embrace an abundance of spirit, a generosity towards other people, that shows the fruit of being a true follower. By living like this we will flourish, we will bear fruit. We will not wither and die but live! In the little parable of the fig tree there is good news. There is time to learn and to grow in humility. The gardener says to the owner – be patient – I will keep tending the tree, feeding it and nurturing it, until it bears fruit. If it doesn’t bear fruit in the next season, then you can cut it down. It seems we have a little time to learn to be tender-hearted.
YOUTH MINISTRY
For full details see our website: https://salisburycatholics.org/youth SPIRIT - Girls in Years 3-6 from 3.15-5pm in the Parish Rooms on Mondays, Collection from St Osmund's School is available.
SOURCE - Mixed group Years 6-8 from 5.30pm to 7.15pm in the Parish Rooms on Mondays. 2:42 Group Mixed Years 9-11 Wednesday 4-6pm - bible study ’Genesis to Jesus’ starts this week. 2:42 Group Mixed Years 12,13+ Thursdays 7-9pm - four week programme on prayer.
L I T U R G Y O F T H E W O R D
First Reading Exodus 3:1-8. 13-15 I Am has sent me to you. Responsorial Psalm Ps 102 The Lord is compassion and love.
Second Reading Corinthians 10:1-6. 10-12 The life of the people under Moses in the desert was written down to be a lesson for us. Gospel Acclamation Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God! Repent, says the Lord, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand. Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God! Gospel Luke 13:1-9 Unless you repent you will all perish as they did.